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by kemiller 14y ago
That would make your do-re-mi problem worse, no? They're designed to be compact and visually distinct, and such mnemonics are really only useful at the very beginning anyway. I like the design, it's just a case of probably unconscious "En
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by kemiller 14y ago
This is neat, but the mnemonics are pretty anglo-centric.
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by kemiller 14y ago
I don't think anywhere in there did he suggest this was a professional's regime. This is how he went from weakling (struggling to lift his son's wheelchair) to putting on 35 lb of muscle. For, I'm thinking, LOTS of HN readers (myself incl
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by kemiller 14y ago
Real conversation at at an over-the-top office party: Me: "This party feels like 1999 all over again." Partygoer: "Yeah, well, I was 10 then, so I wouldn't know."
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by kemiller 14y ago
Anyone who lived through 2002-2005 might beg to differ. It's a great town, tons of opportunity, but downturns do happen, and the folks at big companies did much better than the startup surfers. There's (honestly) a lot that's different th
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by kemiller 14y ago
And the point is, depending on where you work, the East Bay is often "closer" in terms of time spent than some parts of the City, because BART is so much faster than Muni or cycling. The most important thing is to live near other interns.
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by kemiller 14y ago
Two good bets for a young person in the East Bay: Temescal. Macarthur BART has lots of trains to the city and assuming you're going somewhere near a station (like Twitter or Google SF) it's ~ 20 minutes. Strong hipster vibe, and an explos
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by kemiller 14y ago
Nowhere in Oakland is an order of magnitude worse. Worse, yes, but few places are that bad. Parts of the Mission, and certainly the Tenderloin (both in the sweet spot on this guy's map) are worse than anywhere BART-accessible in Oakland e
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by kemiller 14y ago
I'm disappointed. They could have removed the if/else blocks by dynamically selecting the strategy and abstracted the loop. B- ;) Tempted to send this to my Java colleagues.
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by kemiller 14y ago
I feel like there's a lesson for software here. You can have more than one effective system. Each will have its own properties, upsides and downsides, but you can't cherry-pick specific practices within the system and transport them into
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by kemiller 14y ago
Holy Christ, is there not a single beloved geek scifi franchise pie that this man will have his finger in?
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by kemiller 14y ago
This seems pretty obviously a calculated publicity stunt. And it worked. I'd certainly never heard of Quirky before. Now I know not only who they are but that they stake their brand on protecting small inventors. That message will proba
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by kemiller 14y ago
Can you style it to match your page?
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by kemiller 14y ago
Once a given petition crosses the threshold, there is much less pressure to recruit more signatures. Without data on the rate of new signers before and after the threshold, I can't prove it, but I'd bet this will not stop serious petitions
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by kemiller 14y ago
Calendar-based stuff is absurdly difficult to get right. Even if you have something that seems to work you likely have a hidden error somewhere. That's not really an excuse -- edge conditions like DST on/off, and end-of-year should be fi
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by kemiller 14y ago
I'd argue that for the vast, vast majority of programming tasks that we encounter, the 90th percentile programmer who can communicate clearly actually IS the better choice. There are tasks for which the 99th percentile mumbler is indispens
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by kemiller 14y ago
There actually was a clean-up expedition in 2000. Lots of oxygen bottles.
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by kemiller 14y ago
I don't really get why people think that. Of all the pundits I follow, he's the most likely to fess up when he got something factually wrong.
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by kemiller 14y ago
What is a "fiber transmitter"?
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by kemiller 14y ago
I tried using it a couple years ago, just as a sample. It's very very unlike any other language I've ever used. Its weirdness comes from a more practical place than other weird languages, which typically have more of a mathematical or aca
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by kemiller 14y ago
You're never going to kill the pixel until you have a display that doesn't use them.
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by kemiller 14y ago
This looks like exactly what I want, thank you!
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Ask HN: What's a great algorithms book?
8 points by kemiller 14y ago|6 comments
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by kemiller 14y ago
Hindi/Urdu and other subcontinental languages are also Indo-European and their lands have histories and linguistic influences at least as colorful as England's. But English has got to be in the running.
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by kemiller 14y ago
So my question is: why is this industry so prone to chips on shoulders? Might there not be a better way?
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by kemiller 14y ago
Macs have only been dominant in Silicon Valley for about 5 or 6 years. Really, only since the switch to Intel, that's to say, once they reached parity on specs. Between 1995 and 2005 you could have gone into almost any office in Silicon V
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by kemiller 14y ago
Mine as well. I find the present startup culture to be extremely hostile to quietness, and I'm hoping I can lead a rebellion. Are there small still small tech companies that value deep, peaceful thought?
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by kemiller 14y ago
This is exactly what I saw with the Podcast app last week. Used up 2GB in about 6 hours and put me into overage. I bet the class action lawyers are already circling.
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by kemiller 14y ago
I'm not saying I can't imagine how to work around it, I'm saying that we're forced to, and likely will do so in a variety of competing ways, which degrades its usefulness as an interchange format. It means your tools, at the end points or
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by kemiller 14y ago
If the numbers are good, they'll brag about them. If they don't, it's a pretty good sign that it's supply.

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